shout (something) from the rooftop(s)

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shout (something) from the rooftop(s)

To share some news or information publicly and with as many people as possible. I was ready to shout that we'd be having a baby from the rooftops, but my wife wanted to wait for a while before we made the news public.I know you want to shout it from the rooftop that you came in first in your class, but you should have a bit of modesty about it.

shout from the rooftops

Announce publicly, as in Just because I won first prize you needn't shout it from the rooftops. This term alludes to climbing on a roof so as to be heard by more people. A similar phrase, using housetops, appears in the New Testament (Luke 12:3): "That which ye have spoken ... shall be proclaimed upon the housetops." [c. 1600]

shout something from the rooftops

If you shout something from the rooftops, you let a lot of people know about something because you are particularly excited or angry about it. I would love to be able to shout our results from the rooftops.I wanted to shout it from the rooftops: Cody is innocent! Note: Other verbs are sometimes used instead of shout. While our rivals on the right are screaming their opinions from the rooftops, we hold back, not wishing to offend anyone.

It is not shouted from the rooftops but many residents already recognise that through her commitment, progress is being made and the culture of the council turned to focus on openness, transparency, listening and wherever possible acting on what communities have to say.

But what is now incontrovertibly clear to me is that we must be proud of the people who have come before us, of those who have fought, rallied, litigated, shouted from the rooftops, and endured terrible hardships so that we may express ourselves like no generation has before us.

I WAS wondering why in the past years up until the 2007, before the recession hit, the number of people registered unemployed was at a record low, a statistic the Government shouted from the rooftops, yet the unemployment benefits bill has soared in that time to record highs.

ANOTHER aspect of digital TV that hasn't exactly been shouted from the rooftops is that if you have a TV in the bedroom or kitchen that works on a set top loop aerial, even if you fit a freeview box to it, the TV will not work.

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